Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and policing …. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are analyzed … for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory conduct …

discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … time on younger black resumes, suggesting they use negative heuristics or taste-based discrimination. Screeners demonstrate … levels-based statistical discrimination, believing that younger black applicants have worse computer skills and more gaps in …

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …Models of worker flows have revitalized the idea of monopsony in the labor market. We apply such a model to gender …